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PatternsEscalation
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The explicit path for uncertain or high-stakes cases: route to a person instead of acting on a low-confidence answer.
- Category
- Patterns
- Also known as
- Escalation
- Reading time
- 1 min
- Related terms
- 4
- Directory entries
- 2
- Docs
- docs.typesafe.ai
- Added
- 2026-09-24
Definition
Every confidence pattern in the docs ends in an escalation path: below a floor, route to a human; between levels, ask the user to confirm; in the entity-alignment cookbook, the middle score level goes to a curator rather than an automatic merge.
Making the path explicit in code is the design point. If the model cannot express honest uncertainty, the system cannot be trusted to run unattended, so the abstain path is part of the architecture rather than an exception handler.
Tagspatternsconfidence
Related terms
Definitions that connect to this one.
Confidence floorA baseline below which code never acts on an answer, regardless of what the answer says.Answers & ConfidenceUncertaintyThe honest "I'm not sure" signal that lets a system defer instead of guessing, exposed through probabilities and confidence.Answers & ConfidenceConfidence-gated routingUse the answer to decide what to do and confidence to decide whether to act, with per-action thresholds set by the cost of being wrong.PatternsUncertainty bandA middle range of probabilities, such as 0.30 to 0.70, that maps to an explicit uncertain outcome instead of a hard yes or no.Answers & Confidence
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How TypeSafe reports certainty, how it differs from probability, and how to use it architecturally to gate and route decisions.
Jev Practices & PatternsDocs#official#confidence#routing
Official
Use the answer to decide what to do and confidence to decide whether to act: the voice-banking example routes below 0.6 to a human and needs 0.85 or more to auto-approve a transfer.
Jev Practices & PatternsDocs#official#patterns#confidence
Official
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